Gameday XIII Shadow of the Vault Lord GM Kate (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Hey folks! This game is part of Gameday XIII, and will begin on September 8th.

Mind if I dot?

Is there a RPG Chronicles link or other sign-in sheet for this game?

Boomer's stats are in their profile, and ready to go.

Testing I've got my profile set correctly

Yes, please feel free to dot in!

Google Slides are here!

RPG Chronicles Sign-in Sheet is here!

This should be a really fun scenario and I am looking forward to running it for all of you.

Signed in, and text added to slides. I will upload the token tomorrow, when I'm on my other computer.

I'm excited to play this one, too! Boomer has GM credit for the two scenarios leading up to it (#2-04 and #3-06), including the Savior of Vesk-XX boon, if that has any effect here. But I wanted to play this one before deciding whether to run it myself--and to play Boomer at least one more time before 2E makes that even more infrequent.

Reaper also has credit for 3-06

Korrigon has played 1-09, 2-04, 3-06, and 3-17. I've played 1-00 and 1-20 on another PC.

In addition to 2-04 and 3-06, Boomer has also played 1-20. They have access to Claimant to Salvation from 1-00 through another character (though I don't think thst's been relevant in more recent Salvation's End scenarios?).

Hello everyone!
I need to make a level-up, it will be done within 24 hours.

Played 1-09, 1-20 and 3-06 with this character.

There is a handout on the Slides with information on the other party. You should also feel free to ask questions of Vex.

Can you add a link to the google slides to the top of the page.

Sure thing! It is also now linked from my tagline.

The other pre-written questions deal with the history of Salvation's End, which most of your characters already know! I'll copy them here as a refresher, though.

What is this place?/Who’s the Vault Lord?
“Huh. Thought we’d have more notoriety. This is Salvation’s End, an artificial moon where some kind of guiding intelligence runs inscrutable tests in massive vault simulations. One test subject calls themself the Vault Lord and is trying to conquer the place. We’ve had some contact with both. The guiding intelligence can be talked to. The Vault Lord’s been exclusively hostile. Neither is a good neighbor.”

What was in previous vaults?
“Dwarves reliving the Quest for Sky amid goblin and robot attacks. Gnolls and yetis jockeying for control of a swamp biome, many who now live and work here. One fictional future of the Pact Worlds that we discovered a bit too late predicted the Data Scourge. A glitching simulation almost exclusively populated with clones named Joro; friendly guys if you like puns. And a recreation of Absalom Station during the Magefire Assault. We’re still struggling to manage all the refugees from there.”

There is a map of the vault as well of art of the other party in the Slides.

Does anyone have telepathy or limited telepathy?

I just reread handout #1. Either the GM is roleplaying these guys different or there's something wrong here.

Definitely seems like things are pointing to something being wrong with these Starfinders.

Indeed something seems amiss!

Are you going to go on to the amphitheater with them, or do something else?

Back to life! Sorry guys, kids, work and life was overwhelming and I wasn't able to do anything except work, sleep and take care of my kids...

I'm back for good.

Going to be away from mid-day Friday until mid-day Sun east coast US time. Spotty coverage so can't guarantee ability to post. Bot if needed. Trying to down Anavay, then Igrim. If Igrim is handled, Stellar Rush Betsy. If get into HP, start aligning shield to boost AC.

Wanted to ask whether the GM will allow me to store my Supernova in my Binding Crystal at the end of the combat or not? Gotten varying answers so figured to ask before assuming.
Solarian Binding Crystal

I'm going to say that it's a 13,000 credit item, so heck yes, you can charge it up.

Where is the big OFF switch in relation to the party? And is there a check we can attempt to figure out what it does?

And would psychokinetic hand be able to affect it? Boomer does know that cantrip, with a range of 50 ft. at their level.

Sorry, it's been a very busy 5 days.
I will return to the game during the day. Bot me if needed.

Oh, the off switch was in the previous room! Boomer was able to disable the power supply with Engineering.

Hilariously, if you turn off the off switch, the "safe zone" at the beginning of the hallway also starts crushing you.

I had a feeling it was something like that.

Hey folks, we haven’t heard from Gil-Oloth in a while, and the player hasn’t posted in their other games either. Hopefully, the player is okay. I checked in with Bigrin, and we have the choice of botting the character or setting them aside for now. With this group, there’s no difference in scaling. Does anyone have strong feelings on how to proceed? DMing me is fine if you prefer.

I'm in another game that they were running, but that's been taken over by a backup GM. IIRC, they were battling illness in their household, and while that seems to be past, they continue to be rather overwhelmed by real life stuff for now. So I don't expect to hear much from them anytime soon.

Personally, I'm fine with either solution. Botting a character of this level can be challenging. (Heck, keeping track of what my own PC can do is challenging enough!)

I will be of no use in botting so I have to back setting them aside.

That's two votes, and one more player agreeing with that plan offline. We'll have Gil-Oloth stay at the arena monitoring the situation and hopefully join in later!

We just got our one month warning for the con! I am a little bit worried on time, so I am going to make an effort to get through more content with each post when we are out of combat, and be a little more aggressive with botting in combat if it has been 24 hours.

You have been a great group for posting quickly; this is simply a high level scenario with a lot going on!

I admit that I am lost as to the location. Is there a map from which we can make choices or was there a location that we visited that could match some of the clues?

I think we can just choose one of the clues to follow up on, and Kate will move us there.

Well done, everyone! We finished just in the nick of time.

The game is reported to HQ and your chronicle sheets are here.

I enjoyed running this one for you quite a bit! Do you have any questions about what happened?

Thanks for the run!

I fixed the sharing settings, so everyone should have access to the folder now!

Mine looks good. Thank you for running.

Mine, too. Thanks for running!

Huge thanks for running!